Examples Of Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

a person who against slavery. At her wedding she made sure the word obey was not to

herself to not have to ‘suffer’ her mother’s fate. She almost seems to be developing anxiety and

Secondly, she found out many things. She even went undercover while walking the streets she turned herself into an older woman to spy and scout. She wanted freedom for all of her people, others joined as well. She snuck tons and tons of slaves to gain their freedom. But the thing is, if you get caught, you would be hanged. That did not scare them though, they rather die fighting for their freedom than just standing there and letting them push them around. She had been through slavery and didn’t want anyone else to go through it either.

These unjust actions all started when Isabel and her younger sister Ruth were forced to be slaves. When their mother was sick and dying she wanted to make sure her children wouldn't have to be slaves. To guarantee

Throughout Harriet Jacobs biography of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she brings up three arguments to support her views on anti-slavery: the moral conflict between slavery and Christianity, pain and suffering (physical and emotional) of being in slavery, and color prejudice. Throughout Jacobs biography, she also uses key themes such as power struggles and feministic views to portray slavery to persuade to the women in the north that slavery is indeed corrupt.

The book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is comparatively an autobiography of Harriet Jacobs’s alias Linda. Her early life is characterized by happiness, love and a promising future. She only discovers that she was born into slavery after her mother dies when she is six. Her mistress takes her and extends the love and freedom she had. She learns how to read, write, and sew from her. Unfortunately, at twelve years of age, her mistress dies and Jacobs' life takes a twist when she is bequeathed to the daughter of her mistress sister. Her "real" slavery begins in the house of a wealthy couple, Dr. Flint and Mrs. Flint. As a teenager, Jacobs is subjected to Dr. Flint's sexual harassment. To avert Dr. Flint’s advances, Young Jacobs engages in an affair with Mr. Sands, a white neighbor. This sexcapade results in two children with Mr. Sands, and instead of discouraging Flint’s affair, it enrages him and to punish her, he sends her to labor in his son's plantation.

designed to lead slaves out of slavery and into a new life. She had been fed up with the abuse and

Because her journey of day to day exisitence was clouded by the steady diet of cruelty in her hostile environment. Her constant and daily struggle was learning to trust and depend on God for what the day would bring. A good illustration of this fact was noted by Mary Prince. She reported that she had found out that the poor slaves had built up a place with boughs and leaves, where they might meet up for prayers, but the white people pulled it down twice, and would not allow them even a shed of prayer. Leaving them with little to no hope. The white people objected to harmony and peace among the slaves, and would stop at nothing to take away any joy that the slaves seeked or

Not that he cared she died; he had planned on selling her after the birth of his heir. She was too fragile of a human; she barely survived the pounding his body gave her as he undertook impregnating her. These human females made better slaves than wives he thought. He still needed more male heirs to

Born as a slave, Linda realizes she’s a slave when she’s six years old. One of Linda’s mistress taught her how to read while Linda was learning this she gets ideas of not being a slave anymore. In fact no one should be a slave. Linda has a rough life throughout the book until she mastermind herself and comes up with a plan that will be best for her and her family. Linda doesn’t fully understand the madness of slavery, she knows that her role is to serve white people. In my paper I will be discussing: reality of a enslave woman’s experience, Linda’s justification of her decision to hide out for seven years, Mr. Sands behavior towards his children, Linda not trusting anyone and also how an enslaved blackman would tell his story differently, how a free white women might tell her story.

fathers actions, she developed issues with control. After her father died, she kept his body for

During her poor decades of life without her daughter and, a husband she became bitter, cruel and cold hearted. She did wicked things for her own satisfaction such as: torturing animals, harming helpless people, and soon became deeply intrigued in witchcraft.

It was then that she was subjected to treatment as a slave. As a slave, she endured cold treatment, words or looks. She was made to feel useless, inferior and inhuman.

hiding in some bushes, is under 24/7 stress by the thought of putting her family in

Although she did not quite understand why she was so tightly watched over, she knew that being a slave was not a fortunate position to be in. Her parents (particularly her father) tried to hard to win her and her brother’s freedom. So that they both especially Harriet would not face in her future what other slave girls would succumb to when they became of age.